A somewhat longer answer 
"Be the best!  on that day  for that speech  as
determined by the judges in that audience  out of all the
speech evaluators at that competition". If you can do that
four times (Club, Area, Division, District) you earn the right
to call yourself the District Speech Evaluation champion for
that year. No small feat!

This eBook will help you
prepare to - Be at your best!You can get the
'How to Win the Toastmasters Speech Evaluation Contest'
strategy HERE

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Ten Tips for Making VideosFor Individual Members
and Clubs

Anyone with a smartphone or video camera has the
technology needed to make a video. Videotaping speeches, and
other speaking activities for later review is a great way to
use video to deepen your knowledge and
understanding.

However, if you want to produce a more
professional (entertaining, thought provoking, educational)
video - there is more to do than point-and-shoot.

Film
maker and fellow Toastmaster - Brian Hebb - provides
ten tips on how to produce a professional looking
video.

How to Deliver Fun, Fair and Well Run
ContestsFor Club, Area, Division and District
Contests

Being
a Contest Chair is challenging and rewarding - stretching both
your leadership and communication skills.

Contestants
have spent many hours crafting their speeches or developing
their impromptu speaking skills. As Contest Chair you - and
your team - can provide a contest environment that is
enjoyable for the competitors and the audience.

This
page has all the resources you will need to build a
team and create fun, fair and well run
contests.

Think
back to the first club you joined. You probably joined because
it felt like the 'right fit'.

That feeling is what I
call Club Strength. When Club Strength is high its because
members are contributing to the production of dynamic,
informative and entertaining meetings  that keep members
engaged and wanting more.

This guide looks at how to
build - or rebuild - Club Strength by raising membership
levels AND ensuring that each members overall club experience
is valuable. The miniMentor program - introduced here - is a
way of assisting clubs in rebuilding Club Strength when a Club
Coach is not available.

A club's
health - or strength - can deteriorate in small decrements
that are not noticed until the change is significant. One of
the most valuable services you can perform - as a club leader
- is to ask club members if the club is meeting their
expectations and helping them reach their leadership and
communications goals.

Toastmasters recommends that
every club do the Moments of Truth module once a
year. However, sometimes clubs feel they are doing just fine
or that Moments of Truth takes too much time and effort. When
this happens I've used a survey that takes only 15 minutes and
yields the insights you need to assess the health of your club
- so the club can take action in the areas that need
it.

How to Build a Strong Leadership
FoundationFor Clubs to Encourage Members to Complete
the CL Manual

Leaders are needed in all aspects of
life.

Completing the Competent Leadership (CL) manual
is the first major step along the Toastmasters path of
leadership development. The next two steps - the Advanced
Leader Bronze (ALB) and Advanced Leader Silver (ALS) - further
develop and refine a members leadership skills and knowledge.

Fellow Toastmaster - Shael Stonebridge, DTM -
has developed a comprehensive system that clubs can use to
encourage members to complete the CL manual and track their
progress.

You can get his six step process and
all the materials - tips, lists and spreadsheetsHERE

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How to Provide Online Club Officer
TrainingFor District Level Club Officer
Training

Club
Officers in remote clubs are sometimes unable to attend
training because of the significant time, cost and in some
cases weather danger associated with travelling to in-person
training.

In 2009 a group of us in District 21 (British
Columbia, Canada) decided to increase the number of club
officers receiving training - by providing an online training
option. Since 2009 a few hundred club officers have been
trained - that would otherwise have not received
training.

NOTE: Prior to each training period
the District has asked for - and received - permission from
the TI Board to have this - online - training count towards
the clubs DCP points.

A step-by-step guide that
contains all the information needed to set up and deliver
online club officer training.

You can get 'How to
Provide Online Club Officer Training to Remote Clubs' HERE

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How to Create and Deliver Large Events
that WOW For Areas, Division and District Level
Promotional Events

Simply put - WOW events are intended to get
attendees to say 'WOW! I didnt realize there was so much to
Toastmasters!'

Over the past few years a number of us
in District 21 (British Columbia, Canada) have created and
delivered large WOW events to a couple hundred people at a
time. Typically a single WOW event helps a couple dozen clubs
build membership and club strength - and generally create a
greater awareness of Toastmasters.

Experiencing a SOLD OUT conference is energizing
for the attendees - and gratifying for the team of people it
took to create and deliver it!

Over the past few years
I've helped a number of conference teams create and deliver
SOLD OUT conferences. This eBook contains all the plans and
email content that we created to successfully promote a
recent District 21 Fall Conference - that reached SOLD OUT and
had a waiting list!

You can get 'How to Get to SOLD
OUT: Promoting Your District Conference' HERE

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How to
Construct a Great SpeechFrom the 'I Have A Dream' speech to the iPhone
launch all great speeches and presentations have a common
architecture says Nancy Duarte. Watch this 18 minute TED video
The Secret Structure of Great
Talks to find out.

How to
Have Fun Memorizing Your SpeechThere are people who can quickly memorize lists
of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck
(or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes
the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its
most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it,
including him. Watch this 20 minute TED video Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do
to find
out.

About Rodney Denno,
DTM

You may be wondering what my Toastmasters
background is - here are some of my leadership roles, awards
and achievements from the past few years. If you want to know
more about me click HERE.